The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 279
f the Church of the Circumcision. Above, in theclouds, are the symbols of the four great witnesses, the evan-gelists, the earliest remaining examples of these emblems: theAngel, the Lion, the Ox and the Eagle. They flank the great 268 CLASSIFICATION OF THE MONUMENTS central jewelled cross, standing… … Figure of Christ in Apsidal Mosaic of S. Pudentiana. background and gives the artists idea of the structures ofthe Heavenly Jerusalem in which the scene is laid. In thesixteenth century the two end apostles were destroyed, as wellas the lower part of all the figures with whatever was belowthem.…
Art -- Rome · Christian art and symbolism
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